Melee has reached #16 on the UK Radio Play charts for "Built to Last," as the single was released today and the album is out in the UK next Monday. They will be touring the UK in December with Counting Crows and Ben Folds.

The Rocket Summer, Melee and The Outline will be touring in the UK in July. Melee's new single "Built To Last" goes to radio this week and will be announcing a full European headlining tour shortly for September and October. Dates in the replies.

Melee, Matt White and Until June are heading out on a small six-date tour kicking off on January 17th, and AP.net is giving away a pair of tickets to each of the stops. To enter this contest, email contests@absolutepunk.net with the subject "Melee Contest + (City)," including whichever city you would want tickets for (find all dates here), and make sure to include your full name and include a picture with your Melee spirit. Based on the picture you submit, we will pick one winner for each city at the end of this week.

Tilly's Clothing Store at the Irvine Spectrum Center in Irvine, CA is having their "Tilly's Unleashed Concert Series" this year, a series of free shows every Saturday for the rest of the summer. The schedule so far is below; you can find more info on their website.

Schedule

August 11th: Take The Crown
August 18th: Melee
September 1st: Benji and Joel from Good Charlotte

Melee is now offering fans a search and win toolbar for your internet browser. The toolbar, which will make it easy for you to search the web and win prizes, features a logo and quick links to myspace, news, and tour information. No need to worry, it is equipped with a pop-up blocker, pest-scan and auto-fill. It is compatible with PCs running Internet Explorer; there is no adware, spyware or anything that can harm your computer. If you are using Firefox or IE7, you can also download the search plug-in so you can search the web right from your browser.

We've had over 550 entries so far for our Get Happy Tour contest, which ends this Friday. Remember that in each city, the winner gets 2 tickets, 2 meet & greet passes, and a small merch pack. What's even cooler is that those winners are entered into a grand prize drawing for a signed guitar, signed bass, and massive merch pack from all four bands (Bowling for Soup, Quietdrive, Melee, and Army of Freshmen). If you haven't entered, you can do so here. Good luck!

To kick off our sponsorship of the Get Happy Tour, featuring Bowling for Soup, Quietdrive, Melee, and Army of Freshmen, we have set up an awesome contest that we're calling "2 Tickets To Happiness." For nearly all of the dates on the tour, we will be giving away 2 tickets, 2 meet & greet wristbands, and a prize package to one lucky winner. Those 35+ winners will be entered into a grand prize drawing the day after the tour. The winner gets both a guitar and a bass signed by all four bands, along with a mega merch package with free stuff from each band. To enter, click here. All of the announced tour dates are in the replies.

AbsolutePunk and Hollywood venue The Roxy are teaming up for a contest for fans to win tickets to see Melee in Los Angeles on June 7th for their first LA headlining show, playing with Ronnie Day. The first five people to email me at paul.tao@absolutepunk.net with the correct answers to the trivia questions below will each win a pair of tickets to the show. Please put "Melee Contest" as the subject of the email.

1. What is the original name of Melee?
2. What kind of drums do Mike play?
3. Name three cover songs that Melee has played live?
4. Ricky appeared in what FOX TV show before his career in Melee?
5. Chris has sung on what two recent records by bands that AbsolutePunk loves?

Here is a smorgasborg of Melee touring news: Melee has been added to Bamboozle for Sunday, they have confirmed a headlining show at The Roxy in LA on July 7th with Ronnie Day (tickets), they have confirmed the second half of the Get Happy tour with Bowling for Soup, Quietdrive and Army of Freshman, and will also be hitting the UK for the Wireless Festival with Kaiser Chiefs, The Editors, The Films and more. Don't forget their new album Devil & Angels is in stores now.

The Get Happy Tour will return for a second year featuring Bowling For Soup, Quietdrive, Melee, and Army of Freshmen. The tour kicks off 6/23 and finishes up on 8/26 and will include a UK leg in October. We at AP.net have been asked to sponsor, and we're working on some surprises for you. Is there anything specific that you would like to see us do with the Get Happy Tour this year?

Melee, whose new record came out this past week, is the featured band on PureVolume. The album is available in Best Buys and indie stores across the country, as well as on iTunes and Amazon.com. They also recently put up a new website .

Melee have completely updated their MySpace page (design and all) and have posted a new song, "Drive Away." Also, don't forget that you can listen to their new song "Biggest Mistake" exclusively on their AP.net profile and that you can now pre-order their new album Devils & Angels over at SmartPunk.

You can check out the first leg of dates for The Early November's upcoming headlining tour with The Rocket Summer and Melee supporting here. These shows go on sale December 22nd; the band's fan club pre-sale starts on December 20th here. Many more dates will be announced soon. Make sure you check out their merch store as well since they have some holiday deals going on.

Melee has updated their Melee Movie Monday section of their Myspace page with a tour video and put up a photo blog on the myspace page as well. Theyre currently on tour; check out tour dates on their myspace page

I've attached a few pictures from AP.net's Melee show on Thursday night at the Apple store in Santa Monica. These are just a couple preliminary shots that a friend of mine took- more pictures will be coming in soon and once I get those, I'll be posting them on here. The fans and the band all had a lot of fun so look out for more of these Apple store performances in the future!

Don't forget that tomorrow night, August 31st, is AbsolutePunk.net presents: Melee. The band will be playing a free in-store performance in Santa Monica, CA at the Apple Store on Third Street Promenade. They go on at 7 pm. It's first-come, first-serve, so get there early to get a good spot! Here is the MySpace event info if you'd like to add it to your calendar.